Curriculum: Second Year

FALL QUARTER

451 Strategic Marketing (Morning)

This course is intended to introduce students to the essentials of marketing: how firms and customers behave and what strategy marketers use to successfully operate in today's dynamic environment. Specifically, the course goals are: (1) to introduce students to marketing strategy and to the elements of marketing analysis, (2) to familiarize students with the elements of the marketing mix and enhance students' problem solving and decision making abilities in these areas, and (3) to advance students' understanding of the marketing process as a framework of looking at the high-tech world. Instructor: Alex Chernev

413 Wireless Technologies (Afternoon)

The course will give an overview of the technical concepts behind mobile, cellular, and emerging wireless personal communications services. The major driving factors in this area are advances in microelectronics, digital communications, signal processing, and advanced intelligent networking. The course will explain the nature of these technological advances and how they can be used to support new services. Topics include: wireless channels and propagation characteristics, digital modulation, diversity, multiple-access, and mobility management. Concepts will be related to current and emerging industry standards. Instructor: Mike Honig

WINTER QUARTER

458 Information Security and Assurance (Morning)

This course will provide students with a firm understanding of the technologies and practices of information security and assurance, with emphasis on the intersection of technical and operational controls with risk management concepts and techniques. Key topics include: risk assessment and management, encryption, access control, secure system and network design, intrusion prevention and detection, remediation and recovery processes, policy and program development, and the role of information security in the enterprise. Instructor: Yan Chen

455 The Law of IT (Afternoon–First 5 weeks)

This course addresses the legal context in which the IT industry and its professionals operate.  We start with the classic regulation of network operators (telecom and Internet operators) and move to current public regulation of applications and service providers, on issues such as intellectual property, privacy, and security.  We also examine issues that IT professionals address internally to companies, such as responding to litigation holds and electronic discovery, managing workplace privacy, and complying with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.  Finally, we talk about the impact that IT makes on some traditional legal problems that companies face, such as electronic contracting and electronic marketing.  The course will not only present the current legal rules, but will also cover both the underlying policy arguments and the best practices for compliance. Instructor: Jim Speta

490 Selected Topics in Information Technology: IT Management (Afternoon–Second 5 weeks opposite 490/Social Media for Business)

The objective of the course is to make students aware of the Economical, Technological, Managerial and Organizational aspects associated with outsourcing and project portfolio management.  Case studies and related discussions will explore some of the challenges and best practices in the area of outsourcing and project management. Topics include: project and portfolio management, benefits and risks of outsourcing, performance metrics, business models and ROI.  Students will learn how to prepare business cases and learn how to choose which projects should be undertaken.  Students will also explore how to handle the human side of managing projects. Instructor: Alan Graves

490 Selected Topics in Information Technology: Social Media for Business (Afternoon–Second 5 weeks opposite 490/IT Management)

The objective of the course it to ensure students are versed in the business, social and technical aspects of Web 2.0. Students who complete the course will also have working knowledge of Strategic planning frameworks in order to address Web 2.0 and future environmental influences. Students will be introduced to key eCommerce topics including Web 2.0, Social Networking, Mobile Commerce, and eBusiness models.   Instructor: Darren Taylor. Course coordinator: Abraham Haddad

SPRING QUARTER

443 Enterprise Architecture, Application, and Integration (Morning)

This course introduces students to Enterprise Applications Integration, a key topic on the CIO Agenda. The emphasis in the course is the management of large integrated systems efforts. The course uses an Open Systems architecture framework to define the major components of such an effort. The management focus is seen in an emphasis on planning and managing such efforts, on identifying risks and issues that arise in such work, and communicating the concerns and actions clearly. Topics include defining data and application architectures based on business architecture, working with standard technical architectures, and the role of program and project management. This course provides several frameworks to facilitate the technical and management skills to meet demands of such integration efforts. An integrated case, based on the instructor's experience, is used throughout the course to provide the students with practice in the content of the course. Instructor: Hugh Ryan

490 Selected Topics in Information Technology: Nanotechnology
(Afternoon–First 5 weeks opposite 445 Managing Technology Development and Innovation)

This course is a tutorial on Nanotechnology, one of the most promising areas in modern technology, with an emphasis on its impact on Information Technology. There are simple physical phenomena that make small-scale devices so attractive. We will study these mechanisms so that the students can deeply understand the underlying process in nano-devices and systems. Also, in order to build a critical and realistic view of this new technology, we will see some of the most important challenges in Nanotechnology. Instructor: Hooman Mohseni, PhD. Course coordinator: Abraham Haddad

445 Managing Technology Development and Innovation
(Afternoon–First 5 weeks opposite 490 - Nanotechnology)

This course underscores that technological innovation is a process, rather than a singular act. It covers the following: management's role in technology utilization; catalysts and barriers to the utilization of technology; technology transfer issues; public policy; valuing and pricing technology; small enterprise development, ethical issues; and entrepreneurship. Instructor: Aaron Gellman

490 Selected Topics in Information Technology: Virtualization
(Afternoon–Second 5 weeks)

This course will explain the concepts behind resource virtualization and introduce students to the state of practice and the state of the art in this area. We will cover virtual machine monitors carefully, including looking at the functional core of one of them in depth. It will further describe how it is likely that future desktop, server, and high performance computing environments will exploit (or may be reinvented by) these technologies. Instructor: Peter Dinda, PhD. Course coordinator: Abraham Haddad